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Subject: Re: Howard's endgame test suite.

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 11:54:14 02/28/00

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On February 28, 2000 at 08:52:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Howard posted an interesting pawn ending test suite last week.  Vincent
>asked me about position 4, where Bxg6 is supposed to win.  It seems that
>cxb5 is also good enough to win in that position, based on a deep search
>using tablebases.
>
>Anyone interested in studying this position?  Here is my output (that I saved,
>further searches were lost before I thought to save them):
>
>               15     3:54   2.92   1. cxb5 Bb7 2. Rdd1 Rd8 3. Bb3 Rf6
>                                    4. Re7+ Kc8 5. Be6+ Kb8 6. h4 Bf3 7.
>                                    Rd2 Be4 8. Kf2 Bf5 9. Bxf5 gxf5 10.
>                                    d7 Rxh6
>
>I will try to post some analysis of Bxg6 as well...

	It would be very helpful for us to see the fen string for this position
(preferably with a nice diagram). Howard's post is now buried in the next page
of messages.
José.



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